
Leading Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise
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The book deals with questions such as:
What are the roots of creativity and imagination? ? How can we create the physiological and mental states under which creativity happens naturally rather than having to rely on creative thinking tools?
? What kind of leadership is required to make creativity and innovation business as usual behaviours in your enterprise?
? What is the role of technique in engendering creativity within teams? What are the most effective and reliable recipes for team based creativity?
? What ensures that creativity turns into innovation? What stops it?
In exploring these questions, the book will show you how to produce and lead creative teams, as well as build an innovative company culture.
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Peter Cook writes with flair, authority and an infectious enthusiasm. You don't find many books that combine hard research findings with fascinating stories and examples on every page. This is one of them. A joy from start to finish. * Royal Holloway, University of London * Peter's new book is nothing less than an excellent, fascinating and illuminating study on how creativity helps to fuel individual leadership and organizational capability. * Emerston Group * A perceptive and original work because Cook explores 'innovation' from such unusual angles. And he does so in a writing style that is always engaging. Recommended - he will make you think! * Lead: Complex Procurement EMIA, AECOM * In a world of wicked problems, this is a deeply insightful examination of the human and structural aspects of the topic, whatever part of the organisation you work in. Carefully structured as both a manual and an account and packed with anecdotes, it's a bible of practical advice of how to drive the organisation to high levels of creativity. Even if you have no intention of ever being creative in your entire career, it remains a must read * Fujitsu * Peter has created a selection box of ideas and tools in this book that entice the reader to explore new concepts of innovation, creativity and enterprise as well as setting well known management and leadership ideas in the context of innovation. The book is lavishly illustrated with his own experiences and those of business leaders. As a text it's a great introduction to the breadth of writing on this important topic and would be ideal for those studying vocational qualifications in leadership and management. * Director of Centre for Action Learning Facilitation *More details
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Peter is author and contributor to 11 books which have been acclaimed by industry experts including Professors Charles Handy, Adrian Furnham, Harvey Goldsmith CBE and Tom Peters. A frequent writer for Virgin.com, Peter's ideas have been featured in the Financial Times, the Independent, The Guardian and USA Today, and he has appeared on the BBC and Bloomberg TV.
Peter has an MBA, is a Chartered Chemist and FCIPD. He has spent almost 20 years teaching MBA's on creativity, innovation and leadership in academia and running his businesses.
Content
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One: Innovation, creativity and you
- Part Two: Innovation, creativity and enterprise
- Part One Innovation, creativity and you
- Chapter 1 The roots of creativity
- Farming, information, creativity and innovation
- Roots and shoots of creativity
- Naturally occurring creativity strategies
- Combinatorial creativity
- Reflections
- Chapter 2 Creativity and you
- Psyche, bile and skulls
- Four P's of creativity
- Psyche-metric
- Mindfulness, thinking and decision-making
- Removing obstacles to creativity
- Reflections
- Chapter 3 Creative leadership
- A brief leadership history lesson
- Roots of leadership
- Power consumption
- Responsible leadership
- Strategies and tools for leaders
- Reflections
- Chapter 4 Tools for creativity
- Why brainstorming doesn't work
- Diverging with flair
- Converging with care
- Strategies for innovation and creativity
- Developing mastery
- Reflections
- Chapter 5 The F word: Failure and success
- F2L not F2F
- Personal factors
- Institutionalised innovation
- Entrepreneurship, failure and success
- Seven habits of highly successful failures
- Part Two Innovation, creativity and enterprise
- Chapter 6 Innovation and enterprise
- It's the end of the world as weknow it . . .
- From the abacus to calculus and papyrus
- The bare necessities
- Posture to prosper
- Unblocking the innovation pipeline
- Reflections
- Chapter 7 Building an innovation culture
- Cultivating cultures not cults
- Cultures and all that jazz
- Stuck on you
- The gods of culture
- Myth management
- Clash of the Titans
- Reflections
- Chapter 8 Structuring for innovation
- The math is not the territory
- The mathematics of organisation
- The biology of organisation
- Designed for life
- Structural archetypes
- Novel structural forms
- Non-structural reforms
- Reflections
- Chapter 9 Developing innovation capacity and capability
- To make or buy?
- Climate change
- Supporting innovation and creativity
- Financing innovation
- Reflections
- Chapter 10 Becoming a true learning enterprise
- Changing change management
- The mathematics of change
- The biology of change
- OD not Oh Dear - The Wisdom of Change
- Anatomy of learning organisations
- Reflections
- Bibliography
- Index
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